I am fine with JBE being pro life. If he ran a national contest, he would probably have to take a position like, "I am pro life but realize government can not effectively regulate or stop it".
If he runs in 2020, I would be fully in support of him.
Yeah, something like that. He wouldn't exactly have Planned Parenthood Action endorsing him, but then again neither did Bernie.
He has a path, but he needs to run away from the "Southern Conservadem" image. Hard.
He could campaign on the more liberal parts of his campaign like wanting to keep New Deal and Great Society programs in place.